User password trouble - SOLVED -

[Tim]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>     Mystery solved!
>  
>     The keyboard has failed!
>  
>     Typing the password characters after the root prompt shows one key
>     does nothing, not even a blank space!

Yes, I've been caught by that, before.  It's even more of a problem with
some GUI systems.  On a CLI-only system, you're quite likely to notice a
key going bad.  But if you rarely type, and mostly point and click, you
mightn't get any noticeable hint about a key starting to fail.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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